Introduction; Heather Widdows; Herjeet Marway
PART I. WOMEN AS VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
1. Rape, women's autonomy, and male complicity; Sarah Sorial; Jacqui Poltera
2. Women between agency and coercion; Elena Alonzo
3. Prostitution and the concept of agency; Rhéa Jean
PART II. WOMEN AS PERPETRATORS OF VIOLENCE
4. Self-harm as violence: when victim and perpetrator are one; Hanna Pickard

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5. Autonomy, value and violence: assessing substantive accounts of autonomy; Jules Holroyd
6. Female suicide bombers and autonomy; Herjeet Marway
7. Women raping men; Iain Law
PART III. GOVERNANCE, VIOLENCE AND AGENCY
8. Andrea Dworkin's Pornography: men possessing women - a reassessment; Bob Brecher
9. Violence, techno-transcendence and feminism: thinking about agency in the digital age; Gillian Youngs
10. 'Not Just Victims...But': Towards a Critical Theory of the Victim; Robin May Schott
PART IV. THEORISING VIOLENCE AND AGENCY
11. Women's agency and the fallacy of autonomy: the example of rape and sexual consent; Paul Reynolds
12. What is violence?; Amanda Cawston
13. Ontology, freedom and the body that can birth; Alison Assiter

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This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political responses to the issues examined.

Elena Alonzo, University of Genoa, Italy Alison Assiter, University of the West of England, UK Bob Brecher, University of Brighton, UK Amanda Cawston, University of Cambridge, UK Jules Holroyd, University of Nottingham, UK Rhéa Jean, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Iain Law, University of Birmingham, UK Herjeet Marway, University of Birmingham, UK Hanna Pickard, University of Birmingham, UK Jacqui Poltera, University of Tasmania, Australia Paul Reynolds, Edge Hill University, UK Robin May Schott, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark Sarah Sorial, University of Wollongong, Australia Heather Widdows, University of Birmingham, UK Gillian Youngs, University of Brighton, UK